Media Chris Curtis admits he declined to fight Alex Pereira in 2022

[BoxerMaurits]

“There is no path to victory here” … lol, can’t blame him:

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Would have gone just like Strickland VS Alex

 

[RockyLockridge]

Humble.

I appreciate his honesty.

Would have gone just like Strickland VS Alex'

I wanna say it'd go worse but I just dont see how that's possible

 

[Luthien]

Alex would have knocked him down to Hades

 

[chinarice]

Curtis would have done better than his boy. End result would be the same though.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

No wonder he takes any other fight that comes his way. He knows he had a red dot on him after turning that one down

 

[Frode Falch]

Haha i really like his honesty here. That comes from a healthy solid confidence.

Remind me of Brendan on a Joe Rogan podcast back in the days. He said that ubereem (the beast before usada) scared him. He said: what if they call and tell me to fight Overreem? What do i do if they give me him,

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Chris would've retired for the 8th time

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Haha i really like his honesty here. That comes from a healthy solid confidence.

Remind me of Brendan on a Joe Rogan podcast back in the days. He said that ubereem (the beast before usada) scared him. He said: what if they call and tell me to fight Overreem? What do i do if they give me him,

Hahah he’s a honest guy

 

[Fact Checker]

Can’t tell me Chris Curtis doesn’t keep it a buck… nothing but respect for the honesty.


In retrospect it actually makes a funny story

 

[laleggenda27]

Curtis should be at 170 anyway, so good call. The size discrepancy would have been ridiculous, in addition to the skills gap.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Pretty rare when a fighter uses his company-man rep to avoid fighting someone. Usually when someone's cashing in, it's for something they wouldn't necessarily get otherwise.

 

[Khaosan]

lol that would have been an absolute slaughter. I don’t care what people say about Adesanya, the dude fought this monster 4 times and KO’d him once (and arguably beat him another one of the times in KB).

Respect to anyone who actually wants to fight Poatan.

Chama.

 

[Megatronlee]

Are these guys afraid to commit to takedowns?

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Respect the honesty.

Are these guys afraid to commit to takedowns?

Unless you're a lifelong power wrestler, the notion of having to drop your hands in front of Alex is not an easy one to take with full confidence.

 

[Ladder Master]

Curtis should be at 170 anyway, so good call. The size discrepancy would have been ridiculous, in addition to the skills gap.

Because Pereira is not a middleweight that might have been why.

 

[Tweak896]

Atleast he's honest. I bet if every fighter on the roster was forced to take truth serum and go live for 24 hours, we'd hear alot more about turning down fights. I feel like besides the big ones, no one mentions how much more prevalent ducking has become. Especially at the top of divisions of popular guys.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Respect the honesty.


Unless you're a lifelong power wrestler, the notion of having to drop your hands in front of Alex is not an easy one to take with full confidence.

Closing his freak ass distance must feel like a bayonet charge at the battle of the Somme for most wrestlers.
We probably need some clinch work instead.

 

[Dr Fong]

It's a good reminder that Poaduck is a massive weight bully on top of being encased in bubble wrap by the UFC.

Of course some middleweights are going to be afraid of a guy who is too cowardly to fight at HW.

If this was Curtis Blaydes rather than Chris Curtis then it would be an actual story, but this is just common sense.

 

[laleggenda27]

Because Pereira is not a middleweight that might have been why.

Except he made MW in both kickboxing and mma for more than a decade, and he never missed weight.